13 The Nepigon and Saguenay. 



leaves the St. John Conference with mur- 

 der in its heart. Stealthily as a leopard 

 it noiselessly glides to the Isle d'Alma, 

 then it mutters and growls for a while, and 

 suddenly bursts out with demoniacal fe- 

 rocity upon the rocks in its path. If you 

 are a master of rivers and fear none of 

 them, go to the Nepigon and to the 

 Saguenay and see how grandly nature is 

 displayed along these two great "tributa- 

 ries of the St. Lawrence which are so 

 much alike upon the map and so different 

 in their characters. Leave behind the 

 pleasures of the city that are dependent 

 upon arts which stimulate the mind 

 without nourishing the soul ; where the 

 gardener makes the rose more and more 

 beautiful as he gradually forces its stamens 

 to become petals, until, as the queen of 

 flowers, it has lost the power of gener- 

 ation ; where the arts of civilization 

 stimulate the mind until it flames up in 

 genius and a degenerate body falls back. 

 Go to the Nepigon and to the Saguenay 

 and see what substantial things can be 

 found there in nature. On the Nepigon, 



